THE DOOR STANDS OPEN: CZESLAW MÍLOSZ 1911 - 2004
Heaney Seamus
From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 1998
From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 1998
About this Item
SIGNED AND LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 246 of 250 copies SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY, 25 were not for sale. With outline portraits on the front pastedown and fly, silkscreen collage from Polish newspaper articles on linen wrap, manuscript facsimile, and signature facsimile on outermost paper case. Mixed media 8vo, in the original stainless steel boards backed in gray cloth, the steel upper board printed in black and silvery-brown. Attached to the rear board is a large folding wrapper made of heavy starched linen one side of which is silk-screened with images from Polish newspapers in the days after Mílosz's death, this housed in the original black paper folded-over case featuring Heaney's signature printed in silver. [12], 10, [10] pp., colophon printed on rear paste-down. An as mint and pristine copy, quite without flaw. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE AND UNIQUELY DESIGNED COMMEMORATION BY SEAMUS HEANEY, PUBLISHED AFTER THE DEATH OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING POET CZESLAW MÍLOSZ. The book is composed of an essay on Mílosz, THE DOOR STANDS OPEN, written by Heaney and accompanied with two poems. The poems are 'What Passed at Colonus', previously published in the New York Review of Books in 2004; and 'Saw Music', which is published here for the first time. The two poems are printed on blue handmade and untrimmed paper from Poland, which also serves as endpapers, the essay is printed on light gray paper by Zanders. 'Saw Music' includes a single-page facsimile of Heaney's manuscript. The edition also included a deluxe issue of only fifty copies, ten of which were not for sale, and which included an elaborate glass "slipcase". Thus the entire edition was of only 300 copies in total. This is a fascinating remembrance of one Nobel Prize for Literature winner created by another. Czeslaw Milosz ranks among the most respected figures in 20th-century Polish literature as well as one of the most respected contemporary poets worldwide. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. "Having lived under the two great totalitarian systems of modern history, national socialism and communism, Milosz wrote of the past in a tragic, ironic style that nonetheless affirmed the value of human life." - Poetry Foundation Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, and is also widely recognized as one of the most respected poets of the 20th (and 21st) century. As a native of Northern Ireland, Heaney's poetry also bears witness to civil strife and often-violent political struggles. Seller Inventory # 33580
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE DOOR STANDS OPEN: CZESLAW MÍLOSZ 1911 - ...
Publisher: Dublin and Lódz For the Irish Writers' Centre and made in Poland by the Book Art Museum 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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